I call bullshit on that JKR comment.
Sur this is what look like the first comment on the appearence of Hermione.
But I am pretty sure in all the seven book, there must be one moment where a comment on her skin color from the narraor or another student.
I found it a bit simple and bullshitting to just say "no no, hermione were never litterary white colored, where did you get that silly idea? I never did :)"
Doesn't anyone know a passage like that?
How can we organize a crowd search to seek it in the books?
"Rowling loves black Hermione."
Hermione is a euphemism for penis.
>>7489738
She's just trying to copy Heller.
>mfw colonel korn is black
>>7489738
Honestly looks cute as hell. I don't know about you guys, but I prefer black women. This definitely explains why she's such a strong and independent young woman, she was fighting against racism before she ever fought against magical racism.
Mudskin to go with her mudblood.
>>7489738
It's statistically unlikely, Britain is still like 95 percent white. But the 5 nonwhite percent skews young anywa, and it's a book about fucking wizards and dragons, who cares?
ummmm
There's lots of lines about Harry noticing her tan from summer, going pink with embarrassment and being pale.
JKR is just pulling her typical PC bullshit.
>>7489783
um wow, that's problematic...
>>7489758
No, it makes much more sense that she came from a middle-class family, encountered racism and was shocked enough to have incredibly stupid FREE THE SLAVES campaigns.
>>7489783
oh, all of a sudden black people can't be white?
Normalfags get upset over the most boring shit.
>>7489783
Social justice warriors are already screaming about how this OBVIOUSLY means "white with fear", nevermind that a black person's face wouldn't become white under any emotional circumstance short of massive blood loss.
Never mind that every illustration in every book featuring Hermione depicts her as a white girl. Rowling obviously approved the illustrations but "lol she's not white silly racists"
>>7489783
she was in white face
She fucking knows Hermoine wasn't supposed to be black. So fucking what if she's white in the books and black in some stupid ass play? No one should care in any way whatsoever.
>>7489805
Sure they can.
ITT: Characters that remind you of yourself
For me it’s Hermione – brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever.
How terrible does your life have to be that you feel emotionally invested in the skin colour of a character from a childrens book
>>7489881
It's called moral integrity. Brainwashed tumblr scum like you wouldn't understand, I'm sure.
>>7489871
And an annoying cunt?
>>7489822
this. Why are people so touchy about skin colour?
She's European. More than that, she's British. Saying, "No, she's white, not black. Isn't that obvious because it's set in England?" would get Rowling under a lot of social pressure from the British tabloids, labling her as a rascit hate mongeree of days past.
>>7489881
>that most of us read as kids
Theres tons of threads about this on >>>/pol/
They dug up some early sketches JKR made, in those sketches Hermoine is undoubtedly the same skin colour as Ron and Harry.
There's also two or three times in the books where her face goes pink or white.
So we are officially down to blackwashing childrens books.
>>7489884
Define 'moral integrity' and explain how your 'moral integrity' requires you to get het up over an adaptation of a children's book. Besides your pompous buzzwords, you do realise adaptations of fiction which change the setting and characters are pretty common right? Does it challenge your moral integrity when somebody sets a Shakespeare play in 1993 instead of 1599?
>>7489738
Jesus Christ, you're barely literate.
Is it an influx of idiots or 1-2 very persistent trolls that has been completely shitting up the board for the last day or so?
>>7489738
I think you're missing the context of what the Harry Potter fandom and modern fandoms generally are like. The obsession with fan-fiction has turned a book from an isolated work to more or less just a stage, a world, within which the public are allowed to play out fantasies. Rowling is obviously aware of this and she's not literally saying Hermione was meant to be black in the books, she's just being tactful in allowing people to create these new stories in the world she created. In any case it shouldn't really matter to you.
>>7489940
This, its like on /a/ where they always have fantasies "shipping" threads. There is no reason why we should be making such a fuss out what people like imagining to get their cheap kicks.
>it technically wasn't specified in the text therefore it could be anything!
Who else was black? Odysseus, Hector, Rodya, Narrator of In Search of Lost Time, Satan from Paradise Lost, Old man from Old man and the Sea
>>7489738
did you guys hear about Wonderwoman being casted as a black male? it's set the black lives matter groups against the feminazis. there has already been a mass shooting at UCLA
>>7489925
"Jesus Christ, you're barely literate. "
I'm not a native english speaker, and it's very late where I am.
So I fucked up my writing a lot on this opening post
>>7489783
It was from the moonlight.
>>7489966
Ozymandias
>>7489966
raskolnikov, Pip from great expectations, Socrates?
>>7489991
>We were-whites now!
>>7490007
>Socrates
Not that far off.
does anyone here actually give a fuck? I could imagine Hermione as a cute black chick if I ever read the books, does it affect anyone else?
>>7489805
*pale
And yes they can.
People's faces do turn white.
>>7489987
Did you just find /lit/?
>>7490025
>Cute black chicks
Good one. You can't find a single black girl with a good face AND body. Most of them have disgusting outie belly buttons, too. Prove me wrong.
>>7490007
Raskolnikov goes pale every second page though.
>>7490060
it's from moonlight.
>>7490060
What!!? It's 2015 and you don't know 1860 Russia was FILLED with black people? Are you calling him white because he goes pale? It's a common pact that Tolstoy was a connoisseur of political correctness! Are you that illiterate or can't accept facts?
>>7489764
The 5% non-white is mostly Muslim rather than black.
>>7490060
Dostoyevsky meant pale as in scared
If I remember rightly it's clearly stated that she gets a golden-brown tan over the summer from going abroad in the third book.
>>7490241
black people can get tans too
>>7489922
Not the poster you're responding to.
It's a question of moral integrity because JK is clearly lying to appease people that have an agenda. It bothers me because of multiple reasons. Also, stop projecting.
if it doesnt matter what her skin color is, why make her black
>>7490093
>Tolstoy
>>7489783
SHUT IT DOWN SHUT IT DOWN SHUT IT DOWN
>>7491081
Meh, most writers don't actually remember the shit they wrote.
I get that all the time, people read my stuff and then mention that they liked something or other and I'm like, "Uh....I don't think I wrote that." Then I have to go look it up and sure enough I did.
I used to think Johnny Rico was a dark skinned mestizo looking Hispanic. This was before I learned Argentina is literally white.
>>7489814
It could mean it's a black person wearing white-face.
>>7491056
Because an award winning actress applied for the role and the casting crew liked her performance.
Why is there such a tug of war about representations of ethnicity in entertainment? I thought race didn't matter?
>>7490044
>>7491109
He's Filipino though
>>7491360
6/10
>>7491360
Horsehair. Face isn't that pretty. Definitely will age with the grace of a ton of bricks.
You're blinded by ass son.
OH MY GOD WHO CARES
I once saw a production of Othello where the guy playing Iago was black. Othello was some sallow guy, pretty sure he was in walnut juice. Now, THAT (Iago) is a casting choice apt to raise eyebrows (and it was actually fine, he was quite good). This is just full on whogivesafuck stuff.
>>7492762
He's not half anything.
>>7491360
Look at that simian cranium.
>>7491360
Not pretty
>>7491360
>i'll just post an attractive black woman!
>they won't be able to just say she's ugly
>so will begin their long journey to redemption
Why the fuck are you taking this so seriously.
As if she doesn't know Hermione's officially illustrated as white on the covers, and will forever be considered white because of the movies.
It's just an idea she found cute, like saying "lol I made her white but if the text gives you the space to imagine her black go for it".
What a bunch of wankers yall look like.
>>7491360
nigra/10
She's getting money thanks to it, which is all she cares about.
You are also contributing to this by giving her more attention. Go read some real literature.
>>7491116
You mean they liked their PC points and free promotion.
http://www.themarysue.com/hermione-is-black-now-but-that-isnt-enough/
>According to a recent article in The New York Times, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has approved of the new casting of Hermione and was involved in the casting decisions. But as magical as this decision is now, this is a spell that should have been cast a long time ago in the books and films.
Damn
I don't know why you guys are so butthurt about this, that production is obviously going for unusual casting, even Ron and Harry are strange looking old men.
Even if it wasn't, an adaptive play doesn't dictate what's in the text or how you have to envision it. If you don't like their casting, you should just ignore it.
You guys are just eager for someone to hate, no matter how nonsensical the reason.
>>7489940
>using the word Fandom
Leave
>>7489738
You're a fucking nigger if you legitimately care about Harry Potter characters.
>>7491081
I'm glad they put a box around that.
WE MUDBLOOD NOW
Pic is how she drew the Potter cast in 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granger_(name)
>Granger is a surname of English and French origin. It is an occupational name for a farm bailiff.[1] The farm bailiff oversaw the collection of rent and taxes from the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor.[1] This officer's Anglo-Norman title was grainger, and Old French grangier, which are both derived from the Late Latin granicarius (a derivative of granica, meaning "granary").[1]
![lavenderbrownactresses[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/PITrHks.jpg "lavenderbrownactresses[1].jpg")
This is far more worrying than the shit y'all talking about and noone gave a hoot
>>7489764
It's about 85%
>>7491108
Yeah dude that for sure happens to you all the time.
>>7494306
"Many fans speculate as to why Lavender Brown's actress was changed for Half Blood Prince, but the reasoning is quite simple. Before Half Blood Prince, Lavender Brown played no major role, she was portrayed by two separate actresses in the second and third film and was a background character. Background characters have no specific casting, which is why multiple people can portray them. Usually they are given character names just to keep order on a film set. Lavender Brown, as a major character role, was not cast until the sixth film. The filmmakers had no way of knowing she would play such a role when they assigned her name to the background actresses from previous films, which is why her actress changed in the sixth film."
>>7494317
Let's get rid of that dumb nigger and get a real actress in - totally legit, considering none of them were stars to begin with.
>>7494306
What's the problem? Her face is just white with fear.
>>7494292
Book covers.
>>7489761
smirked
Who cares, they're books for kids
>>7489922
>buzzwords, you do realise adaptations of fiction which change the setting and characters are pretty common right?
a.k.a being a hack
>>7489738
I've been reading her tweets as more along the lines of: "Yeah, that's a way that it can be interpreted," rather than "It was like this all along!"
sure is reddit in here
>>7490026
black people's faces don't turn white
>>7490044
>Zoe Saldana
>Aja Naomi King
>Freema Agyeman
>Tika Sumpter
>Azie Tesfai
There's five off the top of my head.
>>7494755
Best comment.
No amount of art or Beauty in the world is worth this
Humanity needs to leave
>>7489994
WE WUZ PHAROS AN SHIZZ
>>7495905
Warsan Shire
>>7489738
why do you care about a person of a different skin color playing a fictional character in a play that you are never going to see anon, stop showing your power level and go to bed
You guys are more annoying than any SJW shit I've seen trying to push this.
It's fucking Harry Potter, who cares?
>>7489820
suddenly black people turn white with the moonlight like some strange werewolves
>>7494568
She was white with fear because she doesn't like heights, it's obvious.
>>7495905
I'm black and these chicks are ugly aside from saldana
>>7494568
ruski harry has a cross shaped star braise jhezsus
>>7489783
It's magic, anon.
>>7490025
>does anyone here actually give a fuck?
/pol/
>does anyone who matters actually give a fuck?
/no/
